Linkage of national clinical datasets without patient identifiers using probabilistic methods.

Objectives To develop a step-by-step process for probabilistic linkage of national clinical and administrative datasets without personal information, providing guidance on selecting variables for linkage, estimating match weights, and choosing the probabilistic linkage threshold. To validate this p...

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Published in:	International Journal of Population Data Science
Main Authors:	Helen Blake, Linda Sharples, Katie Harron, Jan van der Meulen, Kate Walker
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Swansea University 2022-08-01
Subjects:	electronic health records national clinical datasets patient identifiers probabilistic linkage record linkage
Online Access:	https://ijpds.org/article/view/2067